Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed ...

Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs, are often portrayed as friendly, approachable creatures. According to Dr.

The camera captured, as expected, cow after cow after cow. But then, as Lorenzana kept clicking through, he saw it: a jaguar, “the undisputed ruler of the neotropical forests, captured in a beautiful ...

New discoveries of small animals that lived more than 200 million years ago are changing how paleontologists think about ...

It is for you folks out there that can relate that I share this messy dilemma, in the hope that what we have done may save ...

Meet Kiwi and Gizmo, a pair of capybaras - which are the biggest rodents on Earth. They have just arrived at London Zoo for a ...

Caribou make the longest migrations of any land animal, traveling up to 2,000 miles annually between the Arctic tundra and forested regions. They move seasonally to reach safe spring calving grounds ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...